Hu-mane wearable
Sculpture Studio
Winter, 2021
This project is about responding to surveillance alternatively to the way that is typical of what anti-surveillance looks like.
In protest to the advent of personable corporations, which attempt to permeate into public forums with sometimes painfully on-trend advertisements, I designed a device that would help create a stance on individuals' rights to privacy with humor as a distinctive human element that powerful parties have difficulty navigating (unless they completely get a target on users through their data) allowing the user to push back.
How it works:
The concept is that when surveillance is present in an area, the hat would fan open as a signal to others that they are currently being watched. My ability to create surveillance detection software was limited within the given timeline for the project (one month), so I settled for a proximity sensor which communicates with an Arduino to tell the fans to open wider when anything suddenly gets closer.
